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Literary tradition and practice in Russian culture
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ISBN: 9051834691 Year: 1993 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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Intertextualität in den Mönchsviten des Athanasios und des Hieronymus : Eremiten zum Dialog bestellt
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ISBN: 3110700166 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Hieronymus reagiert mit seinen drei in lateinischer Sprache verfassten Mönchsviten intertextuell auf Athanasios als seinen griechischsprachigen Vorläufer. Insofern dessen Prätext die Motive, Themen, Problemstellungen und Figuren der Viten des Hieronymus beeinflusst, entsteht ein vielseitiger »Dialog«, mit dem Hieronymus seine Helden vom großen Vorbild Antonius abrückt, ohne ihre geistige Verwandtschaft zu leugnen. Einerseits weiß sich Hieronymus dem griechisch-römischen Literaturerbe verpflichtet. Andererseits erlaubt ihm die Perspektive seiner Eremiten, entscheidende christliche Glaubenswahrheiten zu markieren, die den absoluten Wert eines auf Enthaltsamkeit ausgerichteten Lebensideals betonen. In three of his Latin lives of monks, Jerome refers back – both implicitly and explicitly – to Athanasius’ Greek biography of the hermit Antonius. In so doing, he develops new motifs, topics, problems and figures, combining a Roman consciousness of style with Christian inspiration. The result is a multifaceted »dialogue« between the hermits, with a rich intertextuality that is the focus of analysis in this monograph.


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Jorge Manrique's Coplas por la muerte de su padre : a history of the poem and its reception
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ISBN: 128362060X 9786613933058 178204003X 1855662310 Year: 2011 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Completed shortly before Jorge Manrique's death in 1479, the 'Coplas por la muerte de su padre' is arguably the most famous poem in the Spanish language. Since its first circulation in the same era, the text has occupied a prominent place in the Spanish literary tradition, becoming, along with its author, a cultural icon. This book explores the ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have engaged with the poem. It also contextualizes the 'Coplas', Manrique's life, and his enduring reputation. The book is divided into four chapters. The first provides information about the historical setting of the 'Coplas' and its earliest transmission. A chronological survey of the poem's reception comprises chapter 2 (the Renaissance and Baroque eras) and chapter 3 (literary reception in the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries). Chapter 4, "Shifting Literary Perspectives", examines how different perceptions of the meaning and form of the text have changed over the centuries, and the way in which translations have also revealed a variety of interpretations and transformations. Nancy Marino is Professor of Spanish, Adjunct Professor of History, and Consultant to the Vice President for Research at Michigan State University.

Fichte in Geschichte und Gegenwart : Beiträge zum vierten Kongress der Internationalen Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Gesellschaft in Berlin vom 03. - 08. Oktober 2000
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ISSN: 09250166 ISBN: 9042008458 9789042008458 9789004494657 Year: 2003 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL


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American classics : evolutionary perspectives
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ISBN: 1618117653 1618115928 Year: 2018 Publisher: Academic Studies Press

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This collection of essays offers evolutionary psychological analysis of selected works from the American literary tradition. Application of evolutionary theory to writing by Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, F. Scot Fitzgerald, Zora Neal Hurston, and others creates an interdisciplinary framework for examining key textual features: plot, theme, tone, setting, symbol, characterization, point of view; and at the same time provides an accessible introduction to Darwinian literary critical methodology. Pertinent scientific research, together with essential terms and concepts, is explained in context. Connections are made throughout to existing commentary on the targeted texts, illustrating how Darwinian scrutiny can enrich, extend, or reconfigure understandings derived from other critical approaches.


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Dickens After Dickens
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ISBN: 1912482215 9781912482214 9781912482221 1912482223 Year: 2020 Publisher: York : White Rose University Press,

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The 20th and 21st centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to 'find' Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptations, Dickens's legacy encompasses an array of conventional and innovative forms. Dickens After Dickens includes chapters from rising and leading scholars in the field, offering creative and varied discussion of the continued and evolving influence of Dickens and the nature of his legacy across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Its chapters show the surprising resonances that Dickens has had and continues to have, arguing that the author's impact can be seen in mainstream cultural phenomena such as HBO's TV series The Wire and Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch, as well as in diverse areas such as Norwegian literature, video games and neo-Victorian fiction. It discusses Dickens as a biographical figure, an intertextual moment, and a medium through which to explore contemporary concerns around gender and representation. The new research represented in this book brings together a range of methodologies, approaches and sources, offering an accessible and engaging re-evaluation that will be of interest to scholars of Dickens, Victorian fiction, adaptation, and cultural history, and to teachers, students, and general readers interested in the ways in which we continue to read and be influenced by the author's work. --

Nervous reactions : Victorian recollections of Romanticism
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ISBN: 9781417577568 0791485595 1417577568 9781417577569 9780791485590 0791459713 9780791459713 0791459721 9780791459720 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways—as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured—this nervousness, both about and of the Romantics, is an important though as yet unaddressed concern in Victorian responses to Romantic texts. By attending to this nervousness, the essays in this volume offer a new consideration not only of the relationship between the Victorian and Romantic periods, but also of the ways in which our own responses to Romanticism have been mediated by this Victorian attention to Romantic excitability.Considering editions and biographies as well as literary and critical responses to Romantic writers, the volume addresses a variety of discursive modes and genres, and brings to light a number of authors not normally included in the longstanding category of "Victorian Romanticism": on the Romantic side, not just Wordsworth, Keats, and P. B. Shelley but also Byron, S. T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and on the Victorian side, not just Thomas Carlyle and the Brownings but also Sara Coleridge, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Archibald Lampman, and J. S. Mill.Contributors include D. M. R. Bentley, Kristen Guest, Joel Faflak, Grace Kehler, Donelle Ruwe, Alan Vardy, Lisa Vargo, Timothy J. Wandling, Joanne Wilkes, and Julia M. Wright.


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ISBN: 1283948877 0803245319 9780803245310 9781283948876 9780803243378 0803243375 1496211669 9781496211668 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press


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The Echoing Wood of Theodore Roethke
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ISBN: 0691616914 1400869951 9781400869954 0691063125 9780691063126 9780691616919 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied with Roethke, here describes the cultural tradition that he defined and created for himself. In so doing, she demonstrates how an understanding of Roethke's sources and the influences on his work is essential for its interpretation. The author considers the sources of Roethke's poetry and the influence on him of a wide circle of poets including T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Whitman, Wordsworth, Smart, Donne, Sir John Davies, and Dante. In addition, she traces the changes in Roethke's response to his literary past as he moves from his early lyrics to his final sequences. His imitation of selected poets began as a conscious effort but later became a basic component of his imaginative faculties, encompassing an historical attitude and a psychological state.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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A body politic to govern : the political humanism of Elizabeth I
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ISBN: 1443866385 9781443866385 1322097356 9781322097350 1443844098 9781443844093 1443844098 9781443844093 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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A Body Politic to Govern: The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I is a fresh look at a much studied historical figure. This work examines the influence between the virtues and thoughts of the political humanists of the Italian Renaissance, and the political persona of England's Elizabeth I. Special attention is paid to how Elizabeth constructed literary works such as letters and speeches, as well the style in which she governed England. This learned queen exemplified the virtues of political hu...

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